The Sun. — London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY. Thong!' the turmoils of the General Election are over, yet as the principles which have pro cured the return of several of tie followers of ty are likely to pcevail, and to seduce the un wary, we shall avail ourselves of whatever mSV be calculated to expose . its artifices, and defeat its machinations. We, therefore, extract the fol lowitt pertinent and judicious observations from The (Dublin) Correspondent : " We perceive that some of the French Jour nalists have amused themselves with a disquisition or two upon the elementary parts of our Consti tution ; and not withstanding their apparent un fitness for the undertaking, they seem, upon the wh01, , , to understand the subject somewhat better than the Reformers, with whose doctrines they are a little. at vartattee. The latter, however, are not very scrupulous about the nature of their ar guments ; and provided they fan, by means of a few nonscomioissioned l'a.riws, collect the phy sical force of the populace together, they appear willing enough to leave the renown of arguing to whers. Indeed, their speculations are altogether addressed to A set of disciples, whose understand iugs e;innot travel far into a subject, without the hazard of growing o eat)? ; and who are more likely to be convinced by dashing assertions, which bri!. them at once to the subject, and to a fa vourite conclusion, and which relieve their spirits, dot ink the labours of their intelli cts, by a reviv ing allowance of invective, than by the soundest reasouines and the clearest demonstrations.— Wtten Sir Francis Burdett pronounces in favour of Animal Elections and Universal Suffrage—when he tells.his auditors, that those are the essential qualities of popular power—the ancient tnetho dized democracy—such as, in former tinit, ha . lanced the weight of the Saxon 'ionarchy in Eng land—he does not expect to be ,contradicted by those who are assembled only to shout and act, 81.11 who are as conveniently inclined to begin the work of Reform, as if all that their Orator said had any authority upon its side. The ingenious Baronet has only to display his invention and his confidence,' and " Burdett for ever !" is a ,reply which never can endanger the reputation of his knowledge, or the efficacy of his arguments. He may proceed to talk for hours, without the dread of refutation, conerniog popular power, and its early influence in moulding our Constitution--as if the turbulent Aristocracy—the iron Barons of the feudal times—never had any existence, or as iF they were overlooked altoge her by History. One would suppose that a gross artifice of this kind could oat but offend or disgust the more intelligent descriptions of persons. - But the truth is, that many who see the folly and absurdity of those doctrines relative to Reform, which have turned the heads of the populace every Where, are enxious to avail themselves of the effects which they have produced—are anxious to profit by their influence !you igiiorance, impatience, anti delu sion, especially when they become worked up into eomething of a systematic violence. There are many ambitious schemers in politics, who are le solved to keep the secret, that the doctrines gene rally preached by the Reformers are t:othing but a mass of fligrant nonsense ; and who are deter mined not to divulge the truths which their own understandings recognize, lest the people should turn away from unmasked itspoature, betake themselves to contentment, and relax into repose and subordination. A connivance with such mis-. chievous absurdity as is now prevalent, is gra dually exciting an impatience under our present constitutional system, and disposing the great body of the people towards eXehatigiqg the esta blished good which they possess for a set of va poury projects. If the projects in themselves were theoretically good—if they bad the sanction of reason, or the authority of airy thing that ever prevailed aruong men to recommend them—and it alb' that is established with us were as indifferent as the libellers of our Goverm»ent are industrious to describe it—still there would be no small hazard in making the exchange of the established thing for the projected thing. " Whatever 1136 been long practised among mankind, is understood in its effects—all of which time and experience have concurred to develope— and habit anti familiar practice have taught men how to adapt themselves to them. Let us intend ever so fairly, yet we cannot calculate absolutely upon results which are to come. Some uncer tainty inheres in every undertaking that looks pro spectively for its consequences. None but it des perate empiric in political science could look for ward to the effect of experiments upon thesub stance of society, without anxiety and doubt, es pecially when the experiment contemplates the consequences of forming a system altogether upon one principle, which has been only an ele ment, combined with many, in another system. — Society is a sensible body, the vibrations of which it is hard to calculate, before it be subjected to any specific impulse. It may be convulsed front one end to the other—all its subtle organization lace rated—all its most delicate and important powers paralyzed, by the very medicament intended to improve it from theoretical defect into practical perfection. By adding a simple property more to any of its powers than it possessed—by taking away, in the most sparing proportion, any thing that once had an influence upon its operative sys tem—the whole may become fatally deranged, and the natural and salutary equilibrium of its consti tuent parts overthrown and destroyed. ,Ifa mere simple change were the end all' of the project, sontethiog may be said for the experiment, pas- . sihly. But who can undertake this ? Illho is there able to insure us against being hurried away by a succession of changes, when once we give up our steady anchorage, anti Consign . ourselves to the current of theory ? Are we to trust our safety to the moderation of that spirit which contended egainat what was ancient and venerable ? Are we to presume that it will treat. novelty with mercy, atter it bad cast shown what was ancient Ary we sure that we may not pnrcbase even improve ment at too costly a price ? Are we certain, even, should it favour the ex that a real improvement , petiment, would be recognized as such ? Are we morally sure, that what may be thought im provement at one time would always continue to he Iliought so, and that we should be protected, by a change, from great periodical disorders in ftitnee.! Cl What Lord Chief Jastice Hale has said of a Law, may be, with equal justice, applied to any proposed change io the Substance of our Consti' tution—for surely such we musNonsider Annual Elections and Universal Suffrage to be. " It is most :tain,'' says this learned Writer, " that time and long' experience is ninckmore ingenious, subtle, and inventive, than all the wisest and acutest wits in the worlel, co-existing, can he. It discovers such varieties of emergen cies and cases, that no man could ever otherwise have ima gined. And, on the other side, in every thing that is new, or at least, in roost things, especially relating to laws, there are thousands of new occurrences, and intanglements, and coin cidencies, and complications, that would nut possibly be at first foreseen. And the reason is apparent ; because laws concern such multitudes, and those of various dispositions, passions, wits, interests, concerns, that it is not possible for any human foresight to discover at once, ur to provide expe dients against, in the first constitution of a law. Now, a law that bath abiden the.test of time bath met with most of these varieties and complications; and experience bath, in all that process of time, discovered these cianplications and emergen cies, and so has applied suitable remedies and cures for these emergencies. So that in truth, ancient Laws, especially those that have a commo❑ concern, are not the issues of the pru dence of this or that Council or Senate, but they are the production of the various experiences and applications of the wisest thing in the inferior world—to wit, time; which, as it discovers, day after day, new inconveniences, so it doth suc cessively apply new remedies; and, indeed, it is a kind of ag gravation of Ike discoveries, results, and applications of ages dad events; so that it is a great adventure to go ationtto al ter it, without very great necessity, and under the greatest demonstration nf safety and convenience imaginable.' THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYNIMIKET.—The AfriCatlS: Seiko, Mr. Warde ; Berissa, Miss E. Blanchard. After which, Teasing made Easy. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND. —The Ameri cans: Captain Wilmot, Mr. Pearman ; Louisa, Mrs. H. Keinble. After which, The Deserter of Naples. 'P fk l , For LITERARY REVIEW, see the First Page. MAILS ARRIVED..-1 Dublin, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland, I Hamburgb, 1 Flanders. DUE-1 Waterford, I Gottenburglt, 1 Lisbon. PRICE 01 THIS DAY AT r F STOCKS wELvc O'CLOCK. Bank Stock e76 el per Cent. Red. 77iA 3 per Crut. Cons.... 77* per Cent ...874 4 per Cents. 5 per Cent. N. Ann. 105; 106 Bank Long Ann India Bonds. .....925. 93s pr. Exch. Bills, 2d... IBs. 303. pr. Ditto, 21d.. lB3. 19s. Omnium 1 Cons. for Account 714 Fll H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To•MORROW. Murrain;,, 5 minutes after 6. I Evening, 30 minutes after 6, THE St IN• SOLEM QUI% DICERE: FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1818. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, AUG. 4 —After Mass yesterday the King received several • Lieutenant-Generals and Marechaux de Camp on the retired list. " Lieutenant. General Donadieu, commissioned to inspect the second Swiss Regiment, arrived at Dijon the 29th ult. He made his first review • on Friday last. "Alarshal the Duke of Ragusa is at his estate near Chatillon sur Seine. , " The Count Dec.azes, tbe.Minister of Police, yesterday visited Monsieur. " It is said, that a convoy of 14 Spanish ships, which sailed from Catiiz the 24th June, were nearly all captured on the evenin.g of the 25th, by the In surgent privateers which cruise off Cape St. Vin cent. It is added, that the crews were put on board a chasse maree which formed part of the convoy, and were all disembarked near Vigo. " The ship Chesapeake, from New York, bound to Arnsterdain, found het self, on the in Lat. 42. 51. Lung. 43. entangled in au archi pelago of Ice Islands, through which she lost her mizen•mast, her bowsprit, and sustained other damage. In the confusion, the second mate fell overboard and was drowned. The vessel returned to America to.repair. ' FIVE PER CENTS. Monday .73f. loc. DEFERRED STOCK of the 22d March, 1817, B7 f. 95F. 22(1 Sept. 1817, 35 f. 95r. 22d March, 1318, B4 f. —C. " MADRID, JULY 23.—Notwithstanding the declaration of the Allies against the admission of any Diplomatic Agent to the Meeting at Aix-la- Chapelle, we have reason to hope that the Mo narchs will not hesitate to give an attentive con sideration to the extremely serious differences which subsist between our Court and that of Por tugal. " As to the great events that have occurred, and those that probably will occur, in toe Fioridas, it would be in some measure an insult to the supe rior wisdom ,of the High Allied Powers, to doubt that they will promptly take every means to obtain information respecting the motives and develope ments of a quarrel which may produce incalcul able consequences.' " VIENNA, JULY 22.—The departure of the Emperor and Empress for Munich will decidedly take place about the middle of August. It is understood that the Emperor will review his troops in Alsace, before proceeding to Aix - la- Chapelle. _ . " INlANngim, JvLy 28.—1 t is said that several S o vereigns ti` ill be present at the revie (vs b y thc Duke of Wellington of the corps of the Army of Occnpation in France. They will then proceed to Aix-la • Chapelle." The Letter from our Correspondent at Paris, which we received this day, is of a very inierest ing nature, as it 'not only gives a correct copy of the pretended Letter from MONSIEUR tOTSR KING of FIANCE, which has been so often al luded to in the English Journals, and of which there have appeared mangled passages, but fully developes the aims and objects of that Conspi racy, which was first announced in THE SUN, and the existence of which was so obstinately denied in most of those Journals. We are sorry to find by this Pretended Letter, and the whole of the Conspiracy, that the Ultras seem to have caught the contagion of Jacobinism, and are disposed to ven ture on any experiment, however pregnant with ruin to their Country, in the vain attempt to re store an order of things totally irrecoverable. We sincerely hope that our Correspondent's anti cipations of the happiness and security .which France will derive from the removal of the Allied Troops may be fully realized by events. He has full means of information, and his judgment is lot easily blinded by hope, or deceived by or ifice. A Flanders Mail arrived at a late hour last night. The following are extracts : Rome, JULY 16.—1 t is pretended that the action of Louis Buonaparte, for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from his wife, the Duchess of St. Lue, is entirely dropped, and that it even appears that he is inclined to rejoin his wife, who is now in Tuscany. Atx-t.A,CitArcLLE, JULY 30.—His Highness Prince Har detiberg, the Grand Chancellor of State, arrived here yester day, with the Princess, his consort. To-day, after having viewed the Hotel of 13ellendorff, which is preparing for his Highness's residence during the Congress, they proceeded to Spa, where they will make some stay. The number of visitors who resort hither continues to in crease; wr remark a great many officers of rank, ofvarious nations. The number of strangers inscribed on the list, up to 30th July, is 1401. Prince Hardcnberg has placed a sum of 15,000 francs at the disposition of the President of the Regency, with the promise of a farther sum, if it should be necessary, to con tinue the works that are begun in this city, and put it in a condition to receive the illustrious guests who are expected. There are very different opinions respecting the duration of the Congress. The fact is, that the Hotels have been hired for two months, with a stipulation for a sum in propor tion, in case the stay of our illustrious guests should be pro longed. ANTWERP, JULY M.—ln the Sittings of the States of the Province on the 24th inst. it was resolved, that an applica tion should be made to Government to obtain a change in the present ysteal of Transit, which is very injurious to our commerce; but that the opinion of the Chamber of Com merce shall first be taken. The following Letter appears in The Times of this day, and therefore the public will of course read it with cautions distrust : Extract of a Letter from Ceylon, doted March 3. " Last night's Gazette contains a Proclamation of martial law throughout the whole of the Inte rior ; and there is a general order of the 26th ult., I think, directing that no treasures or am munition should be removed front Revakella, Ari savella, Altapeteya, or Amerapore, posts between Colombo and Candy, without an escort of twenty men. All these posts have been lately strength ened from hence, and we expect that the three provinces, called the Seven, Four, and Three Codes, will openly declare 'themselves against ns very soon. The force in which the rebels have appeared round . Candy has induced the. Governor to call in his scattered detachments, and to concentrate his force in Candy : he means to keep Badula also. I conclude, from the ap parent movements of the rebels, that they intend to change the seat of war, and to divide our . force ; the Dessawe of Ouvah occupying part of our troops in Lower Ouvab, and thereabouts, and the Pretender, or some of his adherents, menacing Our communications between,Colombo and Can dy. The rebels show no want offire-arms, or am munition ; they now bring forward their gingals. We trust that•the melancholy situation to which the British interest on this Island has been re duced, by the ignorant anti impolitic measures which have been pursued in the Candian country, will induce his Majesty's Ministers .to make an immediate change of men and measures. As long as our present system is observed, no solid tran quillity can be expected; and the Candians will have no confidence in our professions, as long as they are to treat with the authors of the Candian Convention. We cannot help comparing the wretched want of talents displayed in the local Government of this Island with the. able anti liberal policy of Lord HASTINGS, and must sin cerely regret that our. Government is not placed under his controul." THE QuEEtc.--The report of the state of the QUEEN yesterday was, " thr MAJESTY is touch the same to-day."—(Court Circular.) Field-Marshal BERESFORD, we understand, is now sitting to Sir TUOMAS LAWRENCE for his partrait, by desire of his Grace the Duke of WEL LINGTON. We shall be glad to see, from the same Masterly hand, the Hero of Portugal added to the number of those immortal Chiefs who co-operated so nobly in the deliverance. of Europe. Letters have been received in the Spanish ca pital from Vera Cruz, of the 11th June, which admit that the Insurgents had again appeared in considerable numbers on the road to Mexico, from whence an escort had just arrived with three millions of dollars, which were to be put on board the Sibyl frigate, one out of many others l lug at Vera Cruz, and proceeding to Jamaica. The Ca binet at Madrid have not received for some time any official details from Gen. 110w.t.0. PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC conEspolsaglccE. t he PARIS, AUG. 3.—Several incorrect copies of 0 letter pretended to be sent by MoNstoi ft t° KING, and which is said to have been written by ii 9 the Baron de VITROLLES, and to lave o ccalicne h his disgrace, having. appeared in the 6 " Papers, I transmit a faithful 'translation from s authentic copy SIRE,—Tbe strange reports which are in culation relative to our Conspiracy, the aPP6reljthe authorized assertions of the Pamphleteers, and appearance of a juridical inquiry into this aff4itir all in fine comvi me to break silence With Y a he Majesty, and to explain myself frankly oil e to results which your Minister of Police see ms pi . wish to give to it. Without orgetting that I e he one of your Majesty's Subjects, I wi ll use t o) language of a Brother acid a i'rince of the 14°11 of Bourbon. " It is not to you, Sire, that it is necessary to el . ' plain what was the object of this CoosPirsei: since, in fact, this name must be given to 0' ject conceived by your Majesty yourself , li ng. rished by your family and your friends, 1° the the Monarchy. I will not remind you o f guarantees promised (on the faith and honou r e a Gentleman) to all the Conspirators- --a g uars e , tee, without which none of us would have re 3sa o ably exposed ourselves. If merely the overillfre of the Charter was our sole aim, e ven that P o o sented the greatest dangers. We know thst ye s Charter, so inconsiderately granted, is in the cc 4 of the Jacobins their main sheet-anchor; gig se these Demagogues every day defend it with o°. to dour and with intentions that it is too e lls ' t e elle e explain. Hence your Majesty had t he e% io% idea of hastening the denouement, and by the presence of our friends, to strike th e ' r o ,, blow. But, alas ! we are betrayed , an ti pelted to put off that happy period for t h e it if verance of the Throne, and the question only to avoid all publicity and stop all P rUf , ll' a je ings. in the present situation of yo ur r „ l c? thanks to your blind attachment for a Mi"l -k eP who thinks he cannot support you but in -e e l to up the word Charter, for he himself 15 c ure it if elude its principles ; in this situation, l only a positive order of your Majesty t° . 1 0 1 Minister DRCAZR9 Willa can produce th e e - b lf effect. That great man must renouli ce ofd of acquiring more celebrity by the d tisc ri- b , great plot—he ought to be satisfied which he enjoys. "In our last conference with your Mar et when you yourself made some additions t° fi ri list of dangerous persons, it was a greed , s a f oil' Majesty promised, that no one belonging tcbeCit' that none of the Conspirators, in case clecotiorP should be the object of the slightest 1.".05C e6.# ha° . 4 • h If, what we dare not believe your 0 0 oil' forgot your royal promise —if, not satis6editord, f. t continuing to leave the Governmeu t n i° o , t ubefibe hands, you would sacrifice one of cis ( s pel t e say us 1 mean all the Conspirators) , `41 4 Hied s° : t obliged to make the truth known to the tP s vereigns. It will then he discove red t. `lllO '1- I or a your Majesty took in this, great even Prode of will learn that it was you 'yourself " e pot ta A be it, and it will then be found.that „ t ths ° ll o ,our enemies declare—more Royal's- orse King. Then, in fine, we will Place ° s i 0 under the safeguard of Lord WELL° W s aot his magnanimity assures us th at be thiti vain in the number of the initiated, 091 a rocerf g f will protect those whom he has promised ta P " We had consented, as li Sire, that : Y v eur g e if s s.f lo , should appear in the eyes of tho se it ~jort to t to sacrifice, to have been comp elled P°' firl i° • 01° great changes which would have to p ~9 1 1° Charter ; but we can never cocoon- tllOl the appear in the eyes of your Su b j ects as ivictim of the Conspiracy. " I am, & C. his die t ! d. Such, Sir, is a faithful translation c' f. t " 6 -1 "/ by t u l r ie re G o o f th c e tu k re 0 1 1 :: 1 .... tbe j 5 : :;: repeatedly at glance it b ies u d t ily)a a tsotl*d. T a: i t s l i l s e b' tb• .1. ,0 1 a ic bs p u a r e d i i i t u y n , vsvtit,cihchasgaivtels, t t ._°:kirso'fo: this Faction in my Correspondence ° l ' d to , (l ' i l o P t i h you have so long regarded as an enigni°.,lo6 this POW , lier cupation was the only support of l lO bi / that its remaining in France ca.ula pave of ill t , object. You now see that the cert aitltl ea o)e t o andril str ° i v k a e pli ri t io h afi e st m g b r ay a a n tye d hol etu ' h b rpe l l o rmte w esae , : ' n' ' eciriela sc h othiecaf"ht ttt'hhille ; c : srAd i e v tri : Ii0 ; 114 0 :'et t i';.1:11111$ the Charter, abolish the Rer esen' :ftb e 'Ill it ; and m til e e il ttb'haeayloCilljeerestore a sons of constitutional liberty, c °l/I° o e k et e British Senator, ' that they hoPe 'd t- ► •" 156- fo ilf . 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